TransTasman 160m Contest 2017 & MWRS Camping Weekend (14-16 July 2017) Another amazing weekend thanks to Mal (Hangi), Jeff (site) and Greg (contest), and all the attendees. 65 contacts made in the contest. Contacts were made to most states except VK8 on either 80m or 160m. Our partners across the Tasman were also very […]
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Post 2017 AGM update
(apologies, no one took a picture) AGM was held Wednesday 12-July-2017. New President’s update! Dear members and friends of the MWRS, The club’s AGM was held on Wednesday 12th July this week and the people listed below were elected as office bearers and coordinators for the coming year. As you can see, a mix of […]
24-Jun-2017 – VHF/UHF Winter Field Day
A late decision to enter the winter VHF/UHF contest saw Nick VK2FS and Greg VK2XE set up a station close to the Pony Club near to the club’s repeaters. Beautiful weather allowed for a smooth set up with a dipole at around 7m up a squid pole for 50MHz and a 6m mast with yagis […]
Thu 11-May-2017 – MidWeekMidDay Working Bee
The retiree’s arm of the MWRS conducted an MWMD (MidWeekMidDay) working bee for winter prep. Having failed to secure enough people over a weekend day in preparation for winter, few of the members indicated that a mid-week working bee may work … and it did. Thanks to the following attendees: Phil BDF, Yves AUJ, Michael UCT, […]
June 2017 Lecture – Fox Hunting
There’s more to this subject than we’d imagined with national and world competitions requiring enormous fitness and skill at the highest level … and a fox! Clifford Heath told us all about it. Check it out on VK2MB TV! Message from Clifford: I hope you enjoyed the evening. Thanks for the opportunity to tell you about […]
HF Comms in the Australian Outback
May 2017 – 5th Wed – Microphones
Wednesday 31-may-2017 was microphones Show & Tell evening with a twist! 2 winners this evening: the best feature (via gold coin voting) & the best story (selected by an impartial jury). What’s your user voice interface??? Bring it on!!! We were looking for: small, big, unusual; valve operated; carbon, electret, dynamic; noise cancelling (electronic, phased, rubber […]
July 2014 – 5th Wed – Telephones
We saw: – rotary phones; – Whitehouse to Gremlin redefines; – bakelite phones; – 802 series, rotary and DTMF without the * or #; – T400 series which was supposed to put Australia on the map; – wireless phones; – satellite phones; – ancien office switchboards.
May 2017 Lecture – Aircraft HF
Aircraft HF – Peter Skinner – Manly-Warringah Radio Society lecture Peter Skinner talks about the challenges of international flight from a communications perspective. Watch it on VK2MB-TV. Following the lecture, the members exchanged the following information (thank you Dom!): A bit of reading here on large aircraft HF antennas – like on the 747-400 Also here’s […]
Just another typical Freebee evening – Wed 26-Apr-2017
On 27-Apr-17 8:41 AM vk2uct wrote: Thanks to everyone for the help soldering up my power board kit last night. Special thanks to Mal for the soldering lesson and helping me solder the heavy duty components on the board. Thanks also to Yves for helping and for Dom’s advice about soldering in general. Yves camera […]
April 2017 Lecture – Outernet
Mar 2017 – HF Month
March 2017 had been declared the HF Month by our HF Officer. We had an exciting schedule of HF-themed events: Sat/Sun 11/12 March 2017 – Contest: RSGB Commonwealth Contest Patrick Vk2PN has operated from club that weekend. Read report! Wed 15-Mar-2017 – Lecture: Digital Signals SDR Geoff, our hard working president, told us all about Digital Signals SDR. Sat/Sun […]
11-March-2017 Contest: RSBB Commonwealth Contest
Safely home now after making little over 150 QSOs in the Commonwealth contest (the exact figure is now 169). Very poor showing on my and the propagation part. Last year I’ve made over 350 contacts. This year only half of that number. This time the band openings were shorter, but the signals when there was propagation were big. Typical […]
February 2017 Lecture – Lasers
Professor Helen Pask spoke about her work and in particular, use of lasers in her research. Professor Pask, in addition to her research work, maintains a full academic life and lectures at Macquarie University. Andrew Howie is a member of our club and a good mate of Jeff Keating. Andrew can’t attend on Wednesday night so Jeff introduced Helen […]
Why authorities only worry about odd-order IMD?
Why is it that ACMA only worry about odd-order IMD when measuring? 3rd & 5th in particular? Why not the evens? Matt (25-Jan-2017): 2nd order IMD products (eg. f1+f2) will occur well away from your desired signal, and are easily knocked out by your bandpass filter. However, 3rd order IMD products (eg. 2*f1-f2) will fall very […]